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The protesters lay on the floor beside their children and buggies (Picture: Ed O’Meara)

Protesters from Extinction Rebellion have taken over a Waitrose to stage a mass ‘die-in’.

The climate change rebels lay on the ground pretending to be dead to sound the alarm about the need to protect our planet.

Dozens of them, including parents with their children, filled the aisles as other shoppers tip-toe around them to reach the supermarket shelves.

Comedian Ryan Hand was shopping in the Waitrose in King’s Cross this afternoon and filmed the protesters as he tried to buy a cucumber.

‘Had to carefully navigate through the fruit and veg aisle to get my cucumber like lol,’ he wrote on Twitter.

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The climate protesters played dead on the ground (Picture: Ed O’Meara)

Their children joined them in the protest (Picture: Newsflare)

The protesters said the ‘die-in’ represents the ‘death toll that will come from global food shortages’.

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They wrote: ‘Our government is failing to act on climate change.

‘And this means it is failing to act to protect us from the threat of food shortages.

‘Right now, everything looks fine. The supermarket shelves are stacked. We have more choice, and more abundance, of exotic world foods, than we could ever imagine.

‘And if the strawberries are sold out, not to worry, there’ll be more on the shelves tomorrow. But this is an illusion, and we need to wake up!’

Shoppers had to tip-toe around them (Picture: Newsflare)

The protesters said they were representing the death of crops (Picture: Newsflare)

It was quite possibly the most spectacular climate stunt to date, a woman has glued her breasts to the road outside the Goldman Sachs offices yesterday.

The eco-protester was spotted by passengers on a bus lying face down with her top up to her neck.

Several police officers surrounded her and put up screens as they began the ‘ungluing’ process.

Extinction Rebellion (XR) demonstrators temporarily blockaded the London Stock Exchange by gluing themselves across entrances to the trading hub in the City of London early on Thursday morning.

Her protest was spotted by passengers on the double decker bus (Picture: Jamie Lorriman)

Police tried to stop the public watching the one-woman protest (Picture: Jamie Lorriman)

They were un-attached before being taken away in police vans, with Scotland Yard saying 26 people had been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespassing.

Elsewhere, five protesters including 83-year-old grandfather Phil Kingston clambered onto the roof of a DLR train at Canary Wharf station in east London, holding signs saying ‘business as usual = death’ and ‘don’t jail the canaries’.

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British Transport Police (BTP) used ropes, ladders and harnesses to remove them before confirming five people were arrested on suspicion of obstructing the railway.

Phil Kingston, 83, sits on top of a DLR train as demonstrators block traffic at Canary Wharf Station (Picture: Reuters)

Police take the pensioner away after his protest at Canary Wharf Station (Picture: Reuters)

An XR spokeswoman said Thursday’s targets were selected because ‘the financial industry is responsible for funding climate and ecological destruction and we are calling on them, the companies and the institutions that allow this to happen, to tell the truth’.

Some 1,130 people have been arrested during the protests which started 11 days ago on April 15, while more than 10,000 police officers have been deployed.